Past Events

2009

• A lecture by Coulter George (UVA) entitled "Expressions of Time in Judeo-Christian Greek" Thursday, April 23 at 4:00pm, Reed Hall room 108, reception following in Reed Hall room 322.  Co-sponsored by the Classics Department.

• Annual Homecoming Lecture by Peter Jenks: Toward a Typology of Numeral Classifiers Thursday, October 22 at 4 pm in Reed Hall 108.  Reception to follow.

   Peter Jenks of Harvard University proposes a syntactic typology of numeral classifier languages.  At the core of the typology is the idea that the order of nouns and numeral classifiers correlates with sui generis syntactic differences.